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Romanticism HT 2017
READING LIST AND SCHEDULE
Course Convenor: Dr Clare Clarke <[email protected]>
Course lecturers: Dr Clare Clarke [CC]; Dr Daragh Downes [DD]; Dr David
O’Shaughnessy [DOS]; Dr Amy Prendergast [AP]; Dr Tom Walker [TW]
Week 1:
Introduction. The Revolution Controversy and definitions of Romanticism.
[CC]
Week 2:
Blake: William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience (OUP) [CC]
Week 3:
Wordsworth and Coleridge I: Lyrical Ballads (OUP) [DD]
Week 4:
Wordsworth and Coleridge II: The Two-Part Prelude, ‘The Eolian Harp’, ‘This
Lime Tree Bower My Prison’, ‘Frost at Midnight’, ‘Fears in Solitude’,
‘Christabel’, ‘The Pains of Sleep’ The Major Works, including The Prelude (OUP)
[DD]
Week 5:
Romantic women: Charlotte Smith, Selected poems [TW] Primary readings will
be available on blackboard
Week 6:
The Gothic Novel I: Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (Oxford World’s
Classics) [CC]
Week 7: READING WEEK, NO LECTURE
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Week 8:
Gothic Novel II: dangers of reading: Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
(Wordsworth) [CC]
Week 9:
Feminist thought: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women
(Penguin Great Ideas) [AP]
Week 10:
Keats, The Complete Poems of John Keats (Wordsworth) [CC]
Week 11:
The Shelleys I: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Selected Poetry (Wordsworth) [DOS]
Week 12:
The Shelleys II: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Wordsworth) [CC]
Romanticism– Secondary reading list
M.H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition
(1953; repr. Oxford, 1971)
Marshall Brown (ed), The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Vol 5: Romanticism
(Cambridge UP, 2000).
Marilyn Butler, Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature and its
Background, 1760-1830 (Oxford, 1981)
---. Jane Austen and the War of Ideas (1975)
James Chandles (ed), The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature
(Cambridge UP, 2009)
Pamela Clemit (ed), The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French
Revolution in the 1790s (Cambridge UP, 2011)
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Philip Cox, Gender, Genre, and the Romantic Poets: An Introduction (Manchester,
1996)
Stuart Curran, The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism (Cambridge UP,
1993)
---. Poetic Form and British Romanticism (New York, 1986)
Aidan Day, Romanticism (Routledge, 1996)
Paul R. Feldman and Theresa M. Kelley, eds., Romantic Women Writers: Voices
and Countervoices (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1995)
Michael Ferber, The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge
UP, 2012)
Claudia L. Johnson, Equivocal Beings: Public, Gender, and Sentimentality in the
1790s:Wollestonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen (Chicago, 1995)
Thomas Keymer and Jon Mee (eds), The Cambridge Companion to English
Literature, 1740-1830 (Cambridge UP, 2004)
Marjorie Levison et al., Rethinking Historicism: Critical Readings in Romantic History
(Oxford, 1989)
Jerome McGann, The Romantic Ideology (1983)
Paul de Man, The Rhetoric of Romanticism (New York, 1984)
Richard Maxwell and Katie Trumpener (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Fiction
in the Romantic Period (Cambridge UP, 2008)
Iain McCalman (gen. ed.), An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British
Culture 1776-1832 (Oxford UP, 1999)
Maureen N. McLane and James Chandler (eds), The Cambridge Companion to
British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2008)
Anne K. Mellor ed., Romanticism and Feminism (Bloomington, 1988)
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Jane Moody and Daniel O’Quinn (eds), The Cambridge Companion to British
Theatre, 1730-1830 (Cambridge UP, 2007)
Michael O’Neill, Literature of the Romantic Period: A Bibliographical Guide
(Clarendon Press, 1998)
Nicholas Roe (ed.), Romanticism: An Oxford Guide (Oxford, 2006)
Rene Wellek, ‘The Concept of “Romanticism” in Literary History’ [2 parts]
Comparative Literature 1:1 (1949) and 1:2 (1949)
Duncan Wu (ed), Romanticism: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 1995)
--- (ed), A Companion to Romanticism (Blackwell, 1998)
A number of secondary readings will be recommended at each lecture.
The slide with details of these readings will be available on blackboard.
Online resources
You will find a host of websites dedicated to Romantic studies, many of which
are very useful – although be careful to avoid those without scholarly
credentials.
The two websites listed below are reputable:
Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
http://ravonjournal.org/
Romantic Praxis
http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/
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General
• Lectures Monday at 2pm in the Synge lecture theatre.
• Tutorials start in week 3 and run until week 10.
• There are 7 tutorials in total (there is a break in Week 7 for Reading
Week).
• Past papers are available on blackboard-make use of these!
• The course is assessed by a 2 hour/2 question exam – the questions will
be thematic.
Attendance:
• students must attend tutorials, and absences are penalised, 5 marks for
every unexplained absence (after the first one). If a student is ill and
cannot make the class, then they must ask their tutor to excuse them. If
they have any reason other than illness for missing a tutorial, they must
ask the Head of Year (Dr Alice Jorgensen - [email protected]) to excuse
them.
• If a student misses two weeks and claims illness is the cause, they must
bring a medical certificate, and they must ask their College Tutor to email the tutor. If a student misses three classes, the Head of Year will be
informed.